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Engineers Hijack Locusts' Natural Senors to Detect Explosives
A team of engineers from the Washington University in St. Louis are turning insects into cyborgs. Backed by the Navy, the team are developing bomb-sniffing locusts. The research team, led by Baranidharan Raman, received a three-year grant of 750,000 from the Office of Naval Research. Raman and his team found out that the bugs could be trained to discern specific scents even if there are other odors present. Raman believes that the insects will be much better than robots due to their antennae having many natural sensors.